5 Sunglasses For 5 Seasons

April 7, 2010 by  

Some sunglasses for Soft Summer, True Spring, True Autumn, Bright Spring, and Dark Winter.

The principles of 12 Season Colour Analysis guide us in so much more than just what colours flatter your skin the most. Those make you look younger than all the other colours.

It’s in how you combine the colours that you express all the images and feelings of that Season, that harmonize best with what your natural coloring is already doing.

By choosing the style that reinforces the colours properly, you become quietly fabulous.

Aim for the heart. You will love the trip and find a new soulmate in yourself.

2 points in this video are confusing. Maybe more than 2.

1. The plum colour of the frame for the Soft Summer glasses doesn’t show up well. The colour is here. Fabulous blush and lipcolour for the Soft Summer, straight out of the personal colour swatches.

2. The point about using frames to balance an unbalanced face shape could be interpreted in various ways.

For one, as I’m sure you’ve seen, people with small faces, or heart shaped faces, wearing big shiny lenses…well, it can look like a bug, you know?

On the other hand, if the face narrows at the chin, a frame that gets wider at the bottom of the lens would counterbalance that.

Since there is no such frame as triangular, another option may be to use a frame where the lines curve from the center out to pull the eye outward, but without curving from the outer edge inward as the aviators do.

This concept is illustrated nicely in this short video. I watched this whole series and learned a heck of a lot.

Bottom line, try them. Bring someone brutally honest with good taste. The first rule of being my shopping partner is to NOT tell me everything looks good. Luckily, I have teenage daughters built-in for this purpose.

All the glasses for these videos were provided by Holland Optical in Chatham, Ontario. Call them at 519-352-8632. Seriously outstanding selection, in a marketing world where so many retailers are just repeating the same thing.

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  2. Turquoise For 12 Seasons
  3. Black and White for 12 Seasons
  4. Lockets for the 12 Seasons
  5. Cocktail Dresses For 12 Seasons

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5 Responses to “5 Sunglasses For 5 Seasons”

  1. Adrienne on July 25th, 2010 1:37 pm

    Hi Christine,

    What’s the brand and model name of the glasses shown for Soft Summer? All I seem to be able to find sunglasses-wise around here are brightly colored 80′s revisits, or tortoise/black bugeye glasses, and I wouldn’t know what frames to ask about if I were to call Holland Optical.

    Thanks,
    Adrienne

  2. Christine Scaman on July 30th, 2010 4:07 pm

    Adrienne,

    It may be a few days before I can stop into the store, and they may no longer have them. I’ll let you know, though.

    I completely understand your frustration with the one-style-must-suit-all approach, aviators being big this year. I usually look for glasses at framesdirect.com. You should be able to find something similar just by searching “plum”.

  3. Adrienne on July 31st, 2010 2:19 pm

    Thanks, Christine.

    I took a look at framesdirect.com, and found a couple that looked plausible. Unfortunately, neither accepted prescription lenses! Hmph. I’ll keep looking around online.

    Hope you had an awesome vacation.

  4. Adrienne on August 2nd, 2010 1:03 pm

    Alright, I’ve continued to look around, and I accidentally found some eyeglass frames that I love. Kate Spade is one of my favorite glasses brands because they fit smaller/narrower faces like mine, and they’re almost always really cute! http://www.framesdirect.com/framesfp/Kate_Spade-tdkhtj/r.html I was thinking either in the Almond or Demi Plum, but I’m not sure if I’ve gotten the feeling right or whether the Almond would be too warm or the Demi Plum too busy. I see them as having the flowing, round-ish lines of Summer with a little feminine touch, but mixed with a practicality from Autumn.

  5. Denise on February 10th, 2011 8:17 am

    Christine,

    The colors on my monitor don’t seem to mesh with what you are saying. Which dot from the swatch book would you call summer’s dusty plum (undertone color)?

    Thanks so much!

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